Nehemiah 2:12-3:16 I gat me up in the night season, and a few men with me: for I told no man what God had given me in my heart to do at Jerusalem. And there was not one beast with me, save it that I rode upon.

MSTC⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹² I gat me up in the night season, and a few men with me: for I told no man what God had given me in my heart to do at Jerusalem. And there was not one beast with me, save it that I rode upon. ¹³ And I rode by night unto the valley port before the Dragon well, and to the Dung port, and considered the walls of Jerusalem that were broken down, and the ports thereof consumed with the fire. ¹⁴ And I went over unto the well port, and to the king's conduit; and there was no room for my beast, that it could go under me. ¹⁵ Then went I on in the night by the brook side, and considered the wall, and turned back and came home again to the valley port. ¹⁶ And the rulers knew not whither I went or what I did: for hitherto had I not told the Jews and the priests, the councilors and the rulers, and the others that laboured in the work. ¹⁷ And I said unto them, "Ye see the misery that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and how the gates thereof are burnt with fire. Come, let us build up the walls of Jerusalem, that we be no more a rebuke." ¹⁸ And I told them of the good hand of my God which was upon me; and the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, "Then let us get up and build," and strengthened their hands to good. ¹⁹ But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant of the Ammonites, and Geshem the Arabian heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, "What is this that ye do? Will ye fall away again from the king?" ²⁰ Then answered I them, and said, "The God of heaven, he it is that causeth us to prosper: and we be his servants. Let us get up and build. As for you: ye have no portion, nor right, nor remembrance in Jerusalem." ³ ¹ And Eliashib the high priest gat him up with his brethren the priests, and builded the Sheep-gate. They hallowed it, and set up the doors of it: even unto the tower of Meah hallowed they it, namely unto the tower of Hananel. ² Next unto him builded the men of Jericho. And beside him builded Zaccur the son of Imri. ³ But the fishport did the children of Hassenaah build; they covered it and set on the doors, locks and bars of it. ⁴ Next unto him builded Meremoth the son of Uriah the son of Hakkoz. Next unto him builded Meshullam the son of Berechiah the son of Meshezabel. Next unto him builded Zadok the son of Baana. ⁵ Next unto him builded they of Tekoa. But their great men put not their necks to the service of their lord. ⁶ The old gate builded Jehoiada the son of Paseah, and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they covered it, and set on the doors, locks and bars of it. ⁷ Next unto them builded Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, men of Gibeon and of Mizphah; where he that was captain on this side the water had a mansion. ⁸ Next unto him builded Uzziel the son of Harhaiah the goldsmith. Next unto him builded Hananiah the Apothecary's son, and they repaired Jerusalem unto the broad wall. ⁹ Next unto him builded Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of the half quarter of Jerusalem. ¹⁰ Next unto him builded Jedaiah the son of Harumaph over against his house. Next unto him builded Hattush the son of Hashabneiah. ¹¹ But Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hasshub the son of Pahathmoab builded the other piece, and the tower beside the furnace. ¹² Next unto him builded Shallum the son of Hallohesh the ruler of the half quarter of Jerusalem, and his daughters. ¹³ The valley gate builded Hanun, and the citizens of Zanoah. They builded it, and set on the doors, locks and bars thereof, and a thousand cubits on the wall, unto the Dung port. ¹⁴ But the Dung port builded Malchijah the son of Rechab, the ruler of the fourth part of the vineyards: he builded it, and set on the doors, locks and bars thereof. ¹⁵ But the Well gate builded Shallum the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of the fourth part of Mizphah; He builded it, covered it, and set on the doors, locks, and bars thereof, and the wall unto the pool of Siloam by the king's garden, unto the steps that go down from the city of David. ¹⁶ After him builded Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half quarter of Bethzur, until the other side over against the sepulchers of David, and to the pool that was repaired, and unto the house of the mighty.